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Social Policy with Respect to Care: A Perspective for Sub-Saharan Africa
Kanyhama Dixon-Fyle, June 2002 Care work is gradually moving towards occupying in social policy the central place it has in our lives. This paper takes an interdisciplinary perspective to recognizing care work as work, examining some of the issues it raises with respect to security and gender. It examines how Africa's rich tradition of care dealt with these, and how today, people and policy are struggling to cope with massive change. The paper shows that Africa has more to gain from taking a care perspective on social policy than the target group approach, and suggests that African societies need to reorient their social policy to reflect treasured values if they are to project themselves into the 22nd century. Click here for full document in PDF |
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Updated by LD. Approved by GS. Last update: 17 September 2002.